Category: Consoles

I’ve had a very nice working relationship with Xgaming for well over a decade. These guys make high quality arcade controllers and arcade cabinets for arcade emulators like MAME. They’ve been around a long time and I have praised them over and over through the years on my popular RetroGaming Radio podcast. Recently they sent me a…

Blizzard Entertainment threw the gaming community for a loop when they announced that their first new IP in 20 years was a team-based first person shooter. Blizzard is best known for their insanely popular MMO World of Warcraft. So a first person shooter was not what anyone expected when Overwatch was announced. So what is…

I’m about to make a bold statement. I will receive hundreds of emails, IMs and comments telling me how wrong I am. Probably a few death threats too. But it has to be said, and no one else is saying it. Console Gaming is dead. Oddly enough, the date that Console Gaming died is a…

One of the greatest genres of gaming on the original Wii was the plethora of incredible lightgun style arcade shooters. With the Wii U finally selling proper, it is time to continue our series on “Wii on Wii U” by giving you a look at all the fantastic lightgun games you can pick up for…

With Mario Kart 8 just one day away, it is likely that a lot of new blood is going to be getting into Wii U. Once the thrill of racing has died down a bit, the budget conscious Wii U shopper may decide to look into buying up some super cheap-ass original Wii games. After…

My recent acquisition of the NVidia Shield has really got me charged up. I wrote a four part review discussing it in great detail, but I know not everyone wants to consume that much literature on the topic, so here is the quick guide version of why you should own an NVidia Shield. About Shane…

A lot of people are having issues justifying the purchase of a Nintendo Wii U. Whatever your reasoning is behind it, I’m going to list fifteen retail games that demand you own a Wii U. What’s more? It doesn’t include this year’s juggernaut titles Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros. – these are games…

When you think of the term “die hard gamer” or “hard core gamer” (or any number of these labels that are thrust upon the gaming consumer that relate to people who really love video gaming) you typically have a mental picture painted. Some 18-29 year old, living in their parent’s basement – wired up to…

Unless you’re dead on a beach somewhere or possibly locked in a bunker on an island typing in codes every hour – you’ve read at least ten articles about Nintendo in the last week. Most of them discussing how Nintendo is as good as dead. Nintendo should get out of hardware. Nintendo MUST make iPhone…

I have a lot of media. I own several thousand DVDs and Blu rays. I have collected a lot of media from the internet. I prefer to OWN (and store) the media I have. I don’t like Netflix and I don’t like Hulu. These aren’t solutions for me. I am paying a lot of money…